The 29 best people in advertising to follow on Instagram

One advertising CEO posts sketches to his Instagram every day.Instagram/@adampadillaA career in advertising can allow you to be creative every day — and get paid for it.

Execs on Madison Avenue spend their days plane-hopping to client meetings and schmoozing at cool celebrity-filled parties.

And many of them document their work — and what they do at the weekends — on Instagram.

We've picked out some of the best advertising and marketing executives' accounts to follow on Instagram. We've weighted our rankings using a (not entirely mathematical) scale of how often the user posts, and whether their pictures are beautifully shot/aspirational/offer an insight into their working life/or simply brighten up people's Instagram feeds.

8. Jonathan Mildenhall, CMO at Airbnb. WHY? As well as having an awesome job that sees him travel the world, Mildenhall's Instagram account shows his life outside work is a joy too.

5. Edward Boches, professor of advertising at Boston University. WHY? He has a great talent for pressing "capture" at just the right moment.

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4. Maani Safa, vice president of creative and innovation at Somo. WHY? Expect elegant style, flash cars, fitness, and exotic travels that will make you jealous.

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3. Carter Murray, global CEO at FCB. WHY? Murray uses his Instagram account to share his joy at being the boss of a global ad agency and dad to his twin boys.

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2. Adam Padilla, cofounder and president of BrandFire: WHY? Padilla draws a different sketch and posts it to his Instagram account every day. It started out as a one-year personal challenge to soothe a creative itch, but has now turned into a running project that has seen him boost his Instagram followers from a couple of hundred to more than 38,000.

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1. Pierce Thiot, art director at Chiat/Day. WHY? He asks his 121,000 followers for suggestions of objects he should place in his beard — and duly obliges.